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"Can it be, sir, that you've not yet heard " "Heard what? Your tongue's like a turnip-watch in a fob pocket out with it, man." "Your wife, Captain " "What? My wife disa What? So this is the jeel! My wife mysteriously disappear Oh, my gough!" Pete burst into a peal of laughter.
"Pullum disa lope, sabe?" Wilbur tugged at the rope the cook indicated. "That's well, y'r peak halyard purchase," chanted Captain Kitchell. Wilbur made the rope fast. The mainsail was set, and hung slatting and flapping in the wind. Next the for'sail was set in much the same manner, and Wilbur was ordered to "lay out on the ji'boom and cast the gaskets off the jib."
The man looked disappointed. He muttered a few words to his companion. The latter scowled. Then they drank from the bottle and replaced it below. The younger man began talking again. "Disa good harbor! We build camp there." He gestured toward the beach. "We plenty lath on board. We make one ... two hundred trap. We stop all summer. Good friend, eh?" "I guess so," returned Budge.
To the Hindu she was the Lady Isani. She was the Ceres of Roman mythology, the Cybele of Phrygia and Lydia, and the Disa of the North. She was worshipped by the Muscovite, and representations of her are found upon the sacred drums of the Laplanders. She swayed the ancient world, from its southeast corner in India to Scandinavia in the northwest; and everywhere she is the "Mater Dolorosa."
The bodies are described as being "without motion, the faces without expression, the eyes looking straight forward, yet a certain grand simplicity occasions them to be universally admired." The Goddess Disa or Isa of the North, as delineated on the sacred drums of the Laplanders, was accompanied by a child similar to the Horus of the Egyptians.
Watson of Kew demonstrated that Disa racemosa will flourish under conditions easily secured. I had the good fortune to do as much for Disa Cooperi, though not by my own skill. One supreme little triumph is mine, however. In very early days, when animated with the courage of utter ignorance, I bought eight bulbs of Disa discolor, and flowered them, every one!
"Suppose you come, taka da look, see my plan all-aright, den," the Italian suggested. "No one on disa side da bridge, to see, disa time night." The cowman hesitated. "Well, all right. It would be best to make sure. "We don't want to carry this, though. Where'll we put it?" As he spoke the man leaned over and picked up a good-sized parcel done up in brown paper.
After breakfast, the strangely assorted trio Charlie, Moran, and Wilbur held another conference in the cabin. It was decided to move the schooner to the other side of the bay. "Feng shui in disa place, no likee we," announced Charlie. "Feng shui, who are they?"
A friend from Natal assured me that he had seen one on the table of the Director of the Gardens at Durban; but it proved to be one of those terrestrial orchids, so lovely and so tantalizing to us, with which South Africa abounds. Very slowly do we lengthen the catalogue of them in our houses. There are gardeners, such as Mr. Cook at Loughborough, who grow Disa grandiflora like a weed. Mr.
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